Six SEO Experts on Twitter

by keif on June 30, 2009

I’ve been on twitter since sometime in 2008 (I assume, this is as far back as twitter is showing me).

In that time, I’ve added a ton of followers, and constantly sorting through the requests I’ve received. I don’t follow everyone. Particularly “Gurus” with thousands of following/followers. I don’t follow people who primarily use Twitterfeed so it’s just a stream of RSS posts. I don’t follow spammers (naturally) or people that do nothing except hock their site, their product(s) or their friend(s) similar products, and I especially do not follow self-claimed gurus, be it social media, seo, sem, etc.

The people I follow on twitter fall into a few categories:

I know them personally.

I know them professionally.

They are an understood expert in their field(s) like:

Web Development (Particularly Javascript Framework Developers)

SEO

SEM

Analytics

Social Media

Particular niches I subscribe to, and I have developed a small list of experts that I’d trust what they say (and occasionally toss questions to them). I consider this list to be “obvious” experts – they’ve proven themselves professionally, or have written at length in blogs about the topic.

I wasn't aware of this limitation before, I'd be curious to know if that is a random number of pages, or if there is some logic behind it..

http://ikeif.net keif

Yeah, ti didn't seem right, but I didn't take the time to validate thehistory (I know the first one wasn't the one I linked).It makes sense, I suppose that Twitter only saves 160 pages worth, it keepsthe content fresh, and it never billed itself as “saving your tweetsforever” but creates an interesting scenario if a service bills itself tostore ALL your tweets, past, present, future.

http://www.afhill.com Andrea Hill (afhill)

One of the first places I looked was myfirsttweet.com, but it reported an error. I don't know if someone would be able to tap into that twitter data unless twitter really let them.

Also… does seeing a history of your tweets truly make sense, if twitter is intended to be “in the moment”?

http://www.redchery.com/ swasa

Yeah Aaron wall and Matt cuts are some of the great experts in seo.

http://ikeif.net keif

I get “too many tweets” – but I think that's just recognizing the 160 pagelimit from twitter, but the service doesn't want to admit it's ownlimitations.And I agree with the history of tweets not making sense… but I've alwaysfound it odd that twitter can't handle the amount of textual data in abetter manner.

When it comes to seo services there are only a handful of companies who really know what they're doing. Only these know what content is all about, fixing site issues, URL canonicalization and rewrites and getting you a lot of links.